| Tim Bray. The Open Text Web Index. http://www.opentext.com/. |
....[FY94] and Point [RH] search within smaller, human reviewed collections of Web site descriptions. DejaNews [Mad95] and the Stanford Information Filtering Tool [YGM95, Yan] specialize in searching archives of recent Usenet news articles. Tools such as FTPSearch [EGB] and the Virtual Software Library [CNE] assist users in finding software and other items available via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Still more search engines help us find email addresses, newspaper articles, technical reports, books, movie reviews, music recordings a new database appears daily to satisfy yet another niche ....
....find email addresses, newspaper articles, technical reports, books, movie reviews, music recordings a new database appears daily to satisfy yet another niche information need. 1 Specifically, these are Lycos, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Open Text, Inktomi, Excite, and Alta Vista [Mau94, Pin94, Cor, Bra, GB, Sof, MB] These tools produce superb results. They serve as invaluable aids in simplifying the otherwise unmanageable task of navigating the Web. However, the amount of knowledge required for each tool how it works, what it is designed to retrieve, where it is located, when it will ....
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Tim Bray. The Open Text Web Index. http://www.opentext.com/.
....additional level of abstraction to Web searching. Several different approaches to meta searching have been deployed; Section 2 introduces a general framework and background information about the various approaches. 1 At this time, these include Lycos [20] WebCrawler[22] Infoseek[6] Open Text[5], Inktomi[16] Excite[29] and Alta Vista[21] In this paper, we adopt a pragmatic approach to the problem of information retrieval on the Web by focusing on the unusual requirements of one relatively new proposed solution: meta search. We describe our design for a meta search system and present ....
Tim Bray. The Open Text Web Index. http://www.opentext.com/.
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